Kolkatta to get second direct China flight
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Kolkatta will have a second direct flight to mainland China next month, when Hainan Airlines starts its service to Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong.”We will start our operations before June 30 with three flights a week from Kolkatta to Shenzhen, and based on the response, we are open to increasing the frequency,” Li Li, the general manager of the airline’s city office, told The Telegraph.The flight will leave Calcutta at 2.15pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and reach Shenzhen at 8.25pm (local time). From Shenzhen, the flight will leave on the same day at 11.40am (local time) and touch down in Kolkatta at 1pm.The only direct air link to mainland China from the city now is China Eastern Airlines’s daily flight to Kunming.Hainan, part of the US$50-billion HNA Group of China, will operate a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 160 seats, including eight business-class berths.From its Beijing hub, Hainan Airlines offers connections to Brussels, Budapest, Berlin and Zurich in Europe and to Seattle and Toronto in North America.
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